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Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)
- From: Harry G McGavran Jr <w5pny at w5pny dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 10:17:42 -0600
- Subject: Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)
- Reply-to: w5pny at w5pny dot com
Ryan Johnson wrote:
>
>I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after
>I exit the login shell they run (even though they contain no
>visible child processes), but they can still be closed using
>the big red "X" in the corner... your problem sounds like
>something more sinister.
>
>Ryan
>
There is never an "X" to deal with here. One never know there is
a problem until he does start->Log Off to log out of windows.
I can normally close any/all mintty windows and then with various
process explorers try to find a mintty process and never find any.
Then when I log out of Windows, Windows claims it has to close
mintty.exe. This was fixed once in a snapshot of 1.7.10, but
has since returned with 1.7.15. In this incarnation it seems to
occur whenever I've run a Cygwin X app from a mintty window.
If I've signed on in Windows and never run a Cygwin X app it
generally doesn't happen, but I can't be sure it never happens.
Every time I've run a Cygwin X app though I can expect to see
it after closing (apparently normally) all mintty windows and
then log off of Windows.
Harry
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